 | Marion Mills Miller - Public lands - 1916 - 496 pages
...in time follow. " The prevailing ideas entertained by Jefferson and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution...in principle, socially, morally, and politically. . . . These ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality... | |
 | Walter Gaston Shotwell - United States - 1923 - 418 pages
...at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African race was in violation of the laws of nature ; that it was...in principle, socially, morally and politically.' But Stephens added with some emphasis, ' Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested... | |
 | Walter Gaston Shotwell - United States - 1923 - 424 pages
...was right. . . . The prevailing ideas entertained by Jefferson and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African race was in violation of the laws of nature ; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and... | |
 | Vernon Louis Parrington - American literature - 1927 - 532 pages
...philosophy in these words: The prevailing ideas entertained by ... most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution...Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. . . . Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the... | |
 | Emanuel Hertz - 1927 - 774 pages
...entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution was that the enslavement of the African was in violation...wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically. . . . Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality... | |
 | American essays - 1863 - 804 pages
...stands may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution...the laws of Nature, that it was wrong in principle, so. cially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with ; but the... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 696 pages
...were, thai the enslatement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature ; that it was vrtmff in principle, socially, morally, and politically....Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This idea, though not incorporated in the Constitution, was the prevailing idea at the time.... | |
 | Henry Watson Wilbur - Biography & Autobiography - 1914 - 232 pages
...admitted that "the prevailing ideas entertained" by Thomas Jefferson and "most of the leading Statesmen at the time of the formation of the Old Constitution...enslavement of the African was in violation of the "The game, p. 337. laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically."... | |
 | Clint Bolick - Social Science - 1988 - 174 pages
...principles of civil rights: The prevailing ideas entertained by ... most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution,...in principle, socially, morally, and politically. ... Those ideas were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of the races,... | |
 | Robert A. Goldwin, Robert A. Licht - History - 1990 - 124 pages
...of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution [which is to say our Constitution], were that the enslavement of the African...Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. . . . Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the... | |
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The prevailing ideas entertained by him, and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature ; that it was wrong in principle, socially,... 
